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Letter "L" » Lies
«Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it»
«Lying is done with words and also with silence.»
«Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.»
«Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone»
«Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men»
«Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Alcohol,
Drugs,
Lies,
Myths
| Keywords:
alcohol, by any means, disguises, disposal, inaccuracy, myth, unable, withdraw, withdrawing, withdraws
«Lying rides upon debt's back.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
debt, rides
«Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.»
«Loquacity and lying are cousins»
«Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
backs, Fall of Man, get up, Of Man, talking, The Fall, The Fall of Man
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